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title: gruesome — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «gruesome» in the school dictionary: Horrible and disgusting, often involving blood, injury or death. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# gruesome

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**Who acts:** film, gruesome tale, us · **What happens:** involve, have, tell, make, shiver · **To what, where:** blood, gruesome scene, story, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«gruesome» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [gruesome in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gruesome.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Horrible and disgusting, often involving blood, injury or death.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gruesome:m1:1
# text = Horrible and disgusting, often involving blood, injury or death.
1	Horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	involving	involve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | gerund |  | blood and injury or death |  |  |  | often *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The film had a gruesome scene.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gruesome:x1:1
# text = The film had a gruesome scene.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the film | a gruesome scene |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The story told of a gruesome witch.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gruesome:x2:1
# text = The story told of a gruesome witch.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the story *not said here* |  |  |  | of a gruesome witch | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The gruesome tale made us shiver.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:gruesome:x3:1
# text = The gruesome tale made us shiver.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	shiver	shiver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the gruesome tale | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shiver** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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